“So the only major distribution Ive never used has actually been Debian, exactly because that has traditionally been harder to install. ”
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So Ive used SuSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, YDL (I ran my main setup on PowerPC-based machines for a while, and YDL – Yellow Dog Linux – ended up the easiest choice). Right now, most of my machines seem to have Fedora 7 on then, but thats only a statement of fact, not meant to be that I think its necessarily better than the other distros.